On this episode of Fill the JAR, we talk with Hill Brown - Hill Brown (they/them), based in rural Western North Carolina, serves as the Southern Ambassador of Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention Ministries for the United Church of Christ and the Southern Director of Faith in Harm Reduction. Hill is a founding board member and the former executive director of Steady Collective, a community based Harm Reduction program in Asheville NC. Born and raised in Alabama, Hill is committed to speaking about and directly addressing the particular ways that gentrification and displacement; racial capitalism; and the war on people who use drugs manifest in the Southern United States.

Citations:

1. “Way Out of No Way” 

Written by Tracy Howe and Osagyefo Sekou

Performed by Stop Cop City Choir

Recorded in Tucson, Arizona

Used with permission

“Stop Copy City Choir is wherever people gather to sing on behalf of the world we fight for, free of repression and abundant in life and love. Everything is donation based and all proceeds go to support the #StopCopCity and #DefendtheAtlantaForest global solidarity movement.” 

Listen/Download/Donate/Purchase: https://stopcopcitychoir.bandcamp.com

2. Faith in Harm Reduction - https://faithinharmreduction.org

3. Harm Reduction & Overdose Prevention Ministries of the United Church of Christ - https://www.ucc.org/what-we-do/justice-local-church-ministries/efam/hrop/

4. Drug Policy Alliance - https://drugpolicy.org

5. Fill the JAR - https://www.ucc.org/fillthejar